Ubuntu 12.10 : linux vulnerabilities (USN-1835-1)

The remote Ubuntu host is missing one or more security-related patches.

Description :

A buffer overflow vulnerability was discovered in the Broadcom tg3
ethernet driver for the Linux kernel. A local user could exploit this
flaw to cause a denial of service (crash the system) or potentially
escalate privileges on the system. (CVE-2013-1929)

A flaw was discovered in the Linux kernel's ftrace subsystem
interface. A local user could exploit this flaw to cause a denial of
service (system crash). (CVE-2013-3301).

Solution :

Update the affected linux-image-3.5.0-31-generic and / or
linux-image-3.5.0-31-highbank packages.

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